Volume 103, Issue 29
Stories from the December 4, 2006 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
Student Health Services offered free HIV tests on Foggy Bottom and Mount Vernon as part of events leading up to World AIDS Day Friday. World AIDS Day was created to spread awareness of the global HIV/AIDS crisis. Other events included a rally where students were arrested for protesting without a permit. Tests were held Friday […]
GW President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg led the District V (Mid-Atlantic Region) Rhodes Scholarship 2007 Selection Committee, which concluded last month. In his eighth year as part of the selection process, Trachtenberg managed a seven-person panel charged with selecting two Rhodes Scholarships to candidates from the District of Columbia, Kentucky, Maryland or West Virginia. “It is […]
Ambassador James Lilley spoke about the relationship between China and Taiwan and the United States’ role in that relationship during a luncheon with about 100 people Friday. A GW alumnus and the former U.S. ambassador to the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of Korea, Lilley spoke as part of the Sigur Center’s conference […]
Nancy Eshelman talked about her personal experiences with drugs and crime to about 50 students last Wednesday. This 2001 GW graduate is not a convict – she works on the other side of the law, as a forensic chemist for the Drug Enforcement Agency. Eshelman shared technical aspects of her job and stories highlighting the […]
At the onset of her fourth year in college, Eve has learned quite a few things about sex. Eve, The Hatchet’s anonymous sex columnist, will share her observations and (sometimes dirty) thoughts about sex at GW with the population that fuels her fire. Editor’s note: names have been changed to protect the naughty. It’s easy […]
This is the third part in an ongoing series intended to promote conversation and debate about GW’s presidential search. This University is hardly an isolated island of scholarly pursuit – an important fact for GW’s incoming president, whomever that might be, to understand. GW is physically intersected by the streets of D.C. and culturally penetrated […]
Every day students ride the shuttle 2.8 miles to GW’s other campus. And every day hundreds of eyes glance at a plot of green, grassy land situated right before turning into the Mount Vernon campus’ entryway. What makes this land conspicuous is the fact that it’s raised, fenced off with barbed wire and there are […]
While rapper Chris “Ludacris” Bridges visited GW and rallies took place at the White House, some students spent part of World AIDS Day participating in a videoconference with peers and experts all over the world. Two of three videoconferences held worldwide had conference sites located in D.C. – one conference took place in the morning […]
While the phrase “NASA technology” may bring to mind images of space shuttles and intergalactic gadgets, one GW professor has modified the same technology used for surveying outer space in hopes of getting closer to curing diabetes. Murray Loew, GW’s director of the biomedical engineering program, is working along with diabetes expert and Cornell University […]
After scheduling two extra hearings on GW’s 20-year Campus Plan, the Zoning Commission conducted the application’s final hearing Thursday and expects a decision early next year. The 20-year Campus Plan asks for increased floor space at the center of campus in exchange for removing GW property on the edges of campus from possible construction sites. […]